Jekabs, Kikula

Dziesmas

Riga: Liesma, [1982]. Small 4to, pp. 149, [3]; 27 leaves of facsimile text with modern Latvian transliteration and explanatory text, brief summaries in Russian, English and German; full pattered brown cloth, brown printed dust jacket; light and shallow dampstain on top edge, light rubbing to jacket, very good. Jekabs of Kikula was an otherwise anonymous serf who wrote a number of petitions on his and his fellow serfs behalf. He is credited as the first Latvian poet. Item #59407

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